INFOBABBLE

Tonight we opened a show I curated at SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design in Purchase, NY. The show is called INFOBABBLE and I think it came out pretty good. Stephen Powers, KAWS, and Cynthia Connolly were at the opening. Here's kind of what it looked like:



Even though these KAWS pieces are from back in '99, they still look fresh all framed up. You can see them from 100 feet down the hall...it's epic. ESPO showed a whole selection of his new stuff: paintings, raincoats, and a hanging mobile.



This is Cynthia Connolly's piece. She documented those cool "arrow signs" that you see all over middle America. Some of them say the funniest things on them. She letter-pressed each print by hand with the location and date she took the photo. If you've never been to Purchase, it's about 45 minutes north of Manhattan. It's worth the trip if you like these artists. Cool, strange vegan student cafeteria there too full of trippy art kids.

INFOBABBLE
Cynthia Connolly, Brian Donnelly (KAWS),
Stephen Powers, Shepard Fairey, Mike Mills
Curated by Aaron Rose

1/30/07 - 3/09/07

Richard & Dolly Mass Gallery
School of Art & Design
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
www.purchase.edu/art+design

Brian Degraw Exhibition in NYC

If you happen to be in New York over the next month, be sure to check out Brian Degraw's new exhibition at James Fuentes Gallery. This photo is of a piece I sent out for the show. The painting has been in my storage in LA for four years and now the public will be able to feast their eyes on it once again. I thought it looked cool next to the car. I forgot how awesome it is.

1/27/07 – 2/28/07

BRIAN DEGRAW
BEHEAD THE GENRE
35 ST. JAMES PLACE, NYC 10038
P (212) 577-1201 F (212) 577-1202
HOURS WED. - SAT. NOON TO SIX
WWW.JAMESFUENTES.COM

Deanna Templeton will be having a book published by Perks and Mini, aka PAM Books this March in Australia to coincide with her exhibition at the ACP (Australian Center for Photography) in Sydney.
It will be titled: Body Logos, and explore the recent phenomenon of young women agreeing to get body painted with corporate logos while they walk around the beach in their bathing suits becoming walking billboards for free.
She will also be showing in 'The Invasive Embrace,' a group show at the Monster Children Gallery this February. Go Deanna!

The Ladies of Indiewood

In addition to my duties as co-editor of ANP Quarterly, I'm also a somewhat regular contributor to a glossy fashion magazine from Paris called Self Service. For each issue I have a "conversation" with someone I think is cool or doing good stuff...and...because of the magazine's upscale reputation I get to sit and chat with people like the two lovely leading ladies of indie-Hollywood that I had the pleasure of spending teatime with this week. Chloe Sevigny and Miranda July. Sitting and talking with them was super inspiring. They are both chicks who have stuck to their guns and stayed true to what they believe in all the way...if only every week could be like this!!!!
Aaron


Chloe shows off her favorite magazine


Miranda sips her tea from the spout.

Report from the frontlines of Awesome-ness

Take inspiration, give inspiration. That is what we are talking about.
Why buy when you can make your own? (and make it better!)
Photo: Ashley M.

holly shit, getting into cute dog territory

So, when he's not getting shy around 'Bonnie' Billy in hott tubbs, Ed Templeton meets and goes straight to the makeout out with Eileen (super webmaster)'s beautiful broken dogg, Kato.
... and please look at his cast... and fully not saying there is ever anything adorable about misfortune... but if you just see it as a scale issue involving a small cartoon thing...

Saturday Field Trip

Yesterday myself, Pat (our publisher), Casey (our art director) and my friend Aimee went to the Corita center at Immaculate Heart High School. We wanted to get some Corita Kent prints, but when we got there they were closed!! The custodian/security guy walked up eating an ice cream sandwich and looked at us all sketchy, like "what are these weirdos doing here snooping around this all girl's school?", and he wasn't quite believing our explanation until Pat offered to buy him a coffee. When we got back, he became our best friend and pulled a small envelope out of his van.


Custodian, Math Wizard

Inside the envelope were press clipping abut him. At first I thought he was going to show us his art, but it turns out this guy is some super math genius! The articles explained that he solved one of the worlds oldest math theorums, something that has stumped mathmetitions since the 17th century or something...and he basically lives in a van in the church parking lot. It was wild. He eventually called Sister Rosalina, and even though it was her day off, and she came and let us inside to look at prints.


Pat, Clothing and Publishing Wizard

We all walked around the church hallways in wonder, admiring all the great Sister Corita art. It was a great day. Everyone who reads this should visit the Corita Center in Hollywood. It's a magical place.

Aaron

Partying with Will...

I wanted a photo of the strange LA Jacuzzi scene going on but was afraid to go get it. The scene where it's cold outside but everyone is stripping down and getting into a jacuzzi with Will Oldham in it. So Dan Koretzky offered to hook me up. Thanks Dan!

Did you read the NewYorkMagazine article about Dash Snow+Dan Colen+Ryan McGinley yet? What did you think?
What about the article about Terrence Koh? The article about Terrence was great, right?
What about the one about Tiki Barber?
I didn't read that one either...
Wait, what about the new apple iPhone? That wasn't in New York Magazine, but you can watch Steve Jobs give such a crazy hour and a half presentation about it at the MacWorld Summit on www.apple.com . Its kind of amazing, I think, like, the first 15 minutes, because everyone is waiting for him to announce it and he has this crazy dramatic presentation with apple animations planned for maximum insanity. The audience fully goes kind of bananas and it is actually really compelling. The first 15 minutes are really worth seeing, I think... but then you mite have to skip around... the guy who owns Cingular is actually really kind of adorable... I won't spill any of his lines, but I will say that I thought he is fully worth finding in there (you can scan through, just look for the larger gray haired guy about 45 minutes into it).
But honestly, I'm still waiting for the Boost Mobile 'Blackberry' thing... "Where You At, Email-and-Google??"
Jason Dill made the wooden Winnie The Pooh panel in the above photo. Thank you so much Jason!
Happy New Year pt 9!
love
Brendan Fowler

Hot Off The Press!!

ISSUE SIX!!!!!!

Bradford Cox and JD Samson
Bradford Cox lives in Atlanta but came to LA for the first time a few weeks ago to work on a movie soundtrack with a kind of banananas team for the kind of really bananananaas new spike jonze movie version of where the wild things are which is going to take over earth. His band, Deerhunter, have a new album out on Kranky Records in a few weeks.
JD Samson in playing in Peaches' band right now, along with Radio from The Need and this amazing drummer who was in Motley Crue and fucking rules. I had been wanting Bradford and JD to meet for sooo long and I had one nite to see each of them and it was the same nite and you know when two people really mean so much to you and then you get them to meet and they can tell that it really means a lot to you?
yesss!
-BF

Twist Ink

Saw this tattoo in Chicago. Nuts.

Signs On The Road

I live on a narrow street where the cars tear around the corner at breakneck speed. Because of this I'm constantly awakened at all hours of the night by the sound of skids and horns and sketchy near-death situations. Over the New Year's weekend I had finally had enough, so I decided to paint this sign to hang on my fence. As I was working on it, I realized that not only did this sign convey a highway safety message, but also maybe a life lesson too. So here's my 2007 wish for all of you...happy new year!!

Love, Aaron